Reconstructionist Confucianism Rethinking Morality after the West /

• Main Author: Fan, Ruiping. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
• Series: Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture, 17
• Subjects: Philosophy (General).; Ethics.; Philosophy, modern.; Philosophy.; Non-Western Philosophy.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3156-3

Contrasting with conventional Neo-Confucian attempts to recast the Confucian heritage in light of modern Western values, this book offers a Reconstructionist Confucian project to reclaim Confucian resources to meet contemporary moral and public policy challenges. Ruiping Fan argues that popular acco...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgements, Introduction
• I. Beyond Individualism: Familism as the Key to Virtuous Social Structure
• II. Virtue as a Way of Life: Social Justice Reconsidered
• III. The Market, the Goodness of Profit, and the Proper Character of Chinese Public Policy
• IV. Rites, not Rights: Towards a Richer Vision of the Human Condition
• Appendix  Liberalism and Confucianism: A Disputatious; Dialogue; Index.